From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A16C433F5 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:25:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D201610CA for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:25:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230460AbhJ1T2S (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2021 15:28:18 -0400 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.104]:11069 "EHLO mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230251AbhJ1T2R (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2021 15:28:17 -0400 IronPort-HdrOrdr: =?us-ascii?q?A9a23=3AZpLRIqCbFLKGwonlHemr55DYdb4zR+YMi2TD?= =?us-ascii?q?tnoBLSC9HfbyqynDpp4mPFrP6Qr5O0tQ/OxoWpPhfZq0z/cc3WBSB8bAYOCMgg?= =?us-ascii?q?WVxe9ZgbcKjweQeRHWx6ptkZ1tdKVzE7TLYGRSh8yS2maFL+o=3D?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.84,326,1620684000"; d="scan'208";a="397679687" Received: from 173.121.68.85.rev.sfr.net (HELO hadrien) ([85.68.121.173]) by mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 28 Oct 2021 21:25:48 +0200 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 21:25:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Julia Lawall X-X-Sender: jll@hadrien To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" cc: Julia Lawall , Doug Smythies , Srinivas Pandruvada , Len Brown , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Viresh Kumar , Linux PM list , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: problem in changing from active to passive mode In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (DEB 394 2020-01-19) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 28 Oct 2021, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 9:13 PM Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2021, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 7:57 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 7:29 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 7:10 PM Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Now, for your graph 3, are you saying this pseudo > > > > > > > code of the process is repeatable?: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Power up the system, booting kernel 5.9 > > > > > > > switch to passive/schedutil. > > > > > > > wait X minutes for system to settle > > > > > > > do benchmark, result ~13 seconds > > > > > > > re-boot to kernel 5.15-RC > > > > > > > switch to passive/schedutil. > > > > > > > wait X minutes for system to settle > > > > > > > do benchmark, result ~40 seconds > > > > > > > re-boot to kernel 5.9 > > > > > > > switch to passive/schedutil. > > > > > > > wait X minutes for system to settle > > > > > > > do benchmark, result ~28 seconds > > > > > > > > > > > > In the first boot of 5.9, the des (desired?) field of the HWP_REQUEST > > > > > > register is 0 and in the second boot (after booting 5.15 and entering > > > > > > passive mode) it is 10. I don't know though if this is a bug or a > > > > > > feature... > > > > > > > > > > It looks like a bug. > > > > > > > > > > I think that the desired value is not cleared on driver exit which > > > > > should happen. Let me see if I can do a quick patch for that. > > > > > > > > Please check the behavior with the attached patch applied. > > > > > > Well, actually, the previous one won't do anything, because the > > > desired perf field is already cleared in this function before writing > > > the MSR, so please try the one attached to this message instead. > > > > > > > Turbostat still shows 10: > > > > cpu0: MSR_HWP_CAPABILITIES: 0x070a1525 (high 37 guar 21 eff 10 low 7) > > cpu0: MSR_HWP_REQUEST: 0x000a2525 (min 37 max 37 des 10 epp 0x0 window 0x0 pkg 0x0) > > cpu0: MSR_HWP_REQUEST_PKG: 0x8000ff00 (min 0 max 255 des 0 epp 0x80 window 0x0) > > cpu0: MSR_HWP_STATUS: 0x00000004 (No-Guaranteed_Perf_Change, No-Excursion_Min) > > cpu1: MSR_PM_ENABLE: 0x00000001 (HWP) > > cpu1: MSR_HWP_CAPABILITIES: 0x070a1525 (high 37 guar 21 eff 10 low 7) > > cpu1: MSR_HWP_REQUEST: 0x000a2525 (min 37 max 37 des 10 epp 0x0 window 0x0 pkg 0x0) > > cpu1: MSR_HWP_REQUEST_PKG: 0x8000ff00 (min 0 max 255 des 0 epp 0x80 window 0x0) > > cpu1: MSR_HWP_STATUS: 0x00000004 (No-Guaranteed_Perf_Change, No-Excursion_Min) > > cpu2: MSR_PM_ENABLE: 0x00000001 (HWP) > > cpu2: MSR_HWP_CAPABILITIES: 0x070a1525 (high 37 guar 21 eff 10 low 7) > > cpu2: MSR_HWP_REQUEST: 0x000a2525 (min 37 max 37 des 10 epp 0x0 window 0x0 pkg 0x0) > > cpu2: MSR_HWP_REQUEST_PKG: 0x8000ff00 (min 0 max 255 des 0 epp 0x80 window 0x0) > > cpu2: MSR_HWP_STATUS: 0x00000004 (No-Guaranteed_Perf_Change, No-Excursion_Min) > > cpu3: MSR_PM_ENABLE: 0x00000001 (HWP) > > cpu3: MSR_HWP_CAPABILITIES: 0x070a1525 (high 37 guar 21 eff 10 low 7) > > cpu3: MSR_HWP_REQUEST: 0x000a2525 (min 37 max 37 des 10 epp 0x0 window 0x0 pkg 0x0) > > cpu3: MSR_HWP_REQUEST_PKG: 0x8000ff00 (min 0 max 255 des 0 epp 0x80 window 0x0) > > cpu3: MSR_HWP_STATUS: 0x00000004 (No-Guaranteed_Perf_Change, No-Excursion_Min) > > Hmmm. > > Is this also the case if you go from "passive" to "active" on 5.15-rc > w/ the patch applied? Sorry, I was wrong. If I am in 5.15 and go from passive to active, the des field indeed returns to 0. If I use kexec to reboot from 5.15 passive into 5.9, then the des field remains 10. julia